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lilithsaintcrow

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I write books.

Black sheep of the von Schtupp clan. A crow for a fetch, I'm your huckleberry.

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Everyone is justifiably pissed at Adobe; Affinity has also recently been bought by Canva, which has gone all-in on “AI”.

So…at this point Affinity is far better but we don’t know if that will continue to be so until the current plagiarism grift bubble pops.

Be ready, that’s all I’m saying.

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Not even 150 words today. Muse and I not quite at loggerheads but certainly not in tandem. Crawling back into bed seems the best possible strategy.

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I love my job, and some days I would cheerfully spend sobbing under my desk with a wine bottle. These two things are not mutually exclusive.

Sad Tv Show GIF by WGN America

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"I think reading counters loneliness because it makes me, in an indirect way, more self-aware. It allows me to hold onto my consciousness while testing it out against different lives..." https://lithub.com/the-unlonely-reader-on-the-pleasure-of-finding-community-in-a-book

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"In this case, software is eating itself—a kind of digital cannibalization—and it feels like a fitting conclusion. Because there’s also long been an open secret in SaaS: the value proposition behind many of these products is bafflingly thin." https://thebaffler.com/latest/spreadsheet-assassins-king

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For the lunchtime crowd: Wiring and Movie Night https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2024/06/wiring-and-movie-night/

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In which the sticks are shaped a little differently, we had a double feature, and there's no alternative to waiting.

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Me: "We have to deal with paying projects, or--"

Muse: "You don't understand, this is SHINY."

Me: "You can have fifteen minutes."

Muse: "Make it a half-hour before lunch and I promise--"

Me: "You think I'm new here? Quarter-hour, and it started two minutes ago."

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She's grumpy, but that's honestly usual. And she must suspect the sooner we clear definitive wordcount on the "real" work, the sooner I'll go back to the shiny, because I can't resist it either...

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Morning Walk Report: Every once in a while, Boxnoggin desires to test boundaries to make sure I still care, and today was that day. The presence of a dead squirrel on the sidewalk as well as crows wondering if I would still dispense peanuts while they taunted the poor dog didn't help, I'm sure.

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Today's run was a hard one, as sometimes happens. Gutted it out, did not curse too much at traffic, dodged a very enthusiastic preschooler on a scooter (parental unit attempting to corral them needn't have been so apologetic, kids are chaos, it's in the job description), was glad when it ended.

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The morning jam is the Be Good Tanyas's "Light Enough to Travel", working patiently on not unraveling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiT6Q4IiE9M

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A worn-out Boxnoggin is basking in sunshine before the sliding glass door, I doubled the grounds in the pour-over for a fresh jolt of java, there's enough work to keep me out of trouble today, windows cracked to let in a breeze almost warm enough to be summer.

And that's the morning report.

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"Perhaps fittingly, Sagan—famed for his sentiment that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”—first approached weed as a skeptic." https://lithub.com/can-we-reschedule-in-praise-of-carl-sagan-iconic-pothead/

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"Almanacs in particular were essential to the popularization of astrology. These cheaply printed texts, varying in length from one sheet to dozens of pages, plotted major events of the upcoming year." https://lithub.com/how-astrology-helped-kings-and-commoners-alike-make-sense-of-the-world

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Wiring and Movie Night https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2024/06/wiring-and-movie-night/

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In which the sticks are shaped a little differently, we had a double feature, and there's no alternative to waiting.

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"This succès de scandale made Bukowski even more of a literary rock star in France than he’d already become." https://www.openculture.com/2024/06/when-a-drunken-charles-bukowski-walked-off-the-prestigious-french-talk-show-apostrophes-1978.html

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"This belief — that exponential growth is not just a reasonable expectation, but a requirement — is central to the core rot in the tech industry, and as these rapacious demands run into reality, the Rot-Com bubble has begun to deflate." https://www.wheresyoured.at/rotcombubble/

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"J., though she had no light, had walked ahead anyway into the darkness. Now she called to me that she couldn’t see and didn’t know where she was." https://yalereview.org/article/lydia-davis-object-of-desire

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There is a definite prospect of enchiladas for dinner, plus it's movie night and my son's pick is the second How to Train Your Dragon movie.

Not bad for a Wednesday.

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So I fell into watching "Dancing For the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult", and I am having a few thoughts about how the playbook for cult leaders, narcissists, and sociopaths (what a Venn diagram) is still super thin--pamphlet-sized!--but they use new tools whenever they can. https://www.netflix.com/title/81638162
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Like, they don't change tactics or strategies, they still find the vulnerable and prey on them, using people's best qualities to drag them into sick systems.

They're still using sticks, the sticks are just...differently shaped, nowadays.
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I just keep coming back to Issendai. "Remember that people rarely get stuck because of their vices. They're usually caught by their virtues." http://www.issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems-qualities-that-keep-you-stuck.html
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This is how billionaires get people to cover for them, this is how abusers elude consequences, this is how narcissists manipulate. By taking advantage of our best qualities, our empathy and cooperation, our willingness to sacrifice.
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...I have other thoughts, but they need a little time to settle. My goodness. I did not expect to be sucked into that today, but I couldn't look away.

Just because someone's life looks shiny on social media doesn't mean there isn't something very, very dark underneath.
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